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Jerusalem prepares to open an underground tunnel system to bury the dead

    Michael C. Murray
    By Michael C. Murray

     

    Into the rock on the side of a mountain directly under the Har HaMenuchot cemetery here lies the entrance to Jerusalem’s newest burial place. It is for 23000 bodies. Expected to be full in a decade.

    https://www.jta.org/2019/10/24/israel/squeezed-for-burial-space-jerusalem-prepares-to-open-an-underground-city-of-the-dead ;

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